Word: russel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, will be rowed Thursday at 3 o'clock. This event is the feature of the entire regatta, the winner being accorded the title of University sculling champion, and having his name engraved on the famous Carrol cup. In the Senior singles event also to be rowed on Friday, Russel Codman, runner-up in the National sculling championships last year, J. B. Shae, and W. A. Weber are entered. All of these men have been New England champions at one time...
...RUSSEL JOHNSTON...
Krakovitch, Russel, Rohrback, Adams, Pashman. These names are not famed throughout the U. S. Few sportsmen, if confronted with the name Krakovitch, for example, would know what to make of it. Yet these five athletes have been instrumental in establishing a record for invincibility that has become legendary. They are the this year's members of the Passaic (N. J.) High School Basketball Team which, drilled by its able coach, "Prof." (Ernest A.) Blood, since 1919 won 159 straight games. Last week, they were beaten for the first time in six seasons. They lost a game by 4 points...
...each one over six feet high. He well knew that this team, of all the opponents of Passaic, did not shiver with stage fright when they confronted the "invincible" Passaicians. Therefore Hackensack was hated and feared in Passaic. "We'd rather lose to any team than Hackensack," said Krakovitch, Russel, Rohrback, Adams, Pashman, reassuring their followers. These followers groaned when Bollerman (six feet six inches), Hackensack centre, tipped the ball to a Hackensack forward who passed it, caught it, passed it, caught it, spun it into the basket for the first score. They took heart when...
...many times penalized. Pashman (Passaic) rendered Fast (Hackensack) unconscious for several minutes. Hackensack scored four points on fouls?the exact margin by which, when Referee Wallum blew his whistle, they found they had won. Fast, Weatherby, Bollerman, Green-leese, O'Shea were hoisted high on Hackensack heads, shoulders.* Krakovitch, Russel, Rohrback, Adams, Pashman were seen to weep as they rushed to their dressing-room. Prof. Blood issued no statement...